After each launch of Ubuntu calls are made as many know UDS (Ubuntu Developers Summit), where certain things are planned for the next releases.
askubuntu
The presentation of askubuntu.com, and some advanced functions for its use (edit, tag, votes ...), and the possible integration with locoteams. Unfortunately due to lack of support or collaboration it has not been possible askubuntu to other languages such as Spanish.
Application for calendars.
Thunderbird it does not include a calendar by default, and that is why the idea of using other applications to meet this need has been raised.
There are different solutions:
- Add an extension to handle calendar functions. But some people express a wish not to have the default extension in Thunderbird.
- Use Maya, the calendar app Elementary OS. But this application is not finished, and they fear that it is not functional.
- Write a new application. But it takes time and resources, and it will probably be eliminated once Gnome have your own calendar, or if Maya it ends and works fine.
Gnome 3.2 or 3.4?
It was also discussed whether it would be launched Pangolin with Gnome 3.2 (current stable) or with Gnome 3.4. Due to integration problems and there may be problems with multitouch support that is no longer included in GTK and it might conflict with the multitouch application of Ubuntu. Most likely it will be released with Gnome 3.2 and some component like Nautilus and Gvfs in the 3.4 version.
Default applications.
This section touched on interesting topics for users of Ubuntu. There was talk of including at the beginning of the Live CD an option to repair the system (something more than successful if carried out).
There was also talk of not including a video editor by default. Apparently they realized very late that Pitivi does not use it or the one who created it, and it was something that I criticized at the time when they decided to replace Gimp with this app.
Another of the most important issues was the idea of putting Rhythmbox by default, replacing Banshee, because the latter does not have support for gtk3 ni ARM, and the space will be greatly reduced by removing packages related to Mono.
For its part, work should be done to integrate Rhythmbox with integration with the store Ubuntu One, among other details.
De Banshee we have already spoken in <° Linux, and I think it is a very powerful application, especially for working with devices of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, but it has something that I have never liked and it is precisely: MONKEY . First because it is a substitute for . NET and second, because its creator is a well-known hypocrite.
Read in this link.
I love the thing about the well-known hypocrite, you hit the spot!
Hehehehe thanks
Well, that 'well-known hypocrite' is also the creator of Gnome so if we are consistent ...
Well, yes, but as we say in my country, what he did with his head, he ruined it with Wind ... I mean, with his feet ... I have seen several interviews with Icaza and he seems a capitalist American with monopolistic ideas ...
Sorry to put the spoon in, but it wasn't with my feet: it was with my LEGS! The man in question does not have feet, but legs. Oh, and in my country there is a variant which is: "what he did with his hand he erased with his elbow."
And I write from work, that's why I have the Win icon and the damn explorer !! hehehe
Na, don't take a fight with that hahahaha
Windows everywhere, <° Windows 😀
Error 404 .. I work with TTY 😛
Yes, he is one of the founders of Gnome, we have a lot to thank him for but, you cannot be blind or fanatic, although he has done (did, or does as they prefer) a lot in favor of the SWL, well now he is doing the opposite :
Miguel Icaza flatters Windows 8 and thinks to use it, criticizes Ubuntu and affirms that: "Linux has very few good applications"
Icasa seems to have joined the trolls team as a manager, hahaha.
That is precisely what we would be sinning, blind and fanatics for crucifying de Icaza for some comments and forgetting everything he has done for free software.
Can't you have your opinion?
Can't you just think freely and say that * your way of thinking * quality applications are missing on Linux?
Can't you say that Windows 8 sounds like a good operating system to you?
I like Windows 7, it seems like a great operating system, but I don't change it for Linux, because I like to feel free, because of its philosophy.
I THINK that we are bordering on Talibanism if we already label de Icaza a "traitor" for those words and forget everything he has done. We don't like MONO because we don't use it, but thanks to MONO we have the POSSIBILITY of using it, and that is what it is about, opening doors, having several paths to choose from, to choose. It is another form of freedom.
Personally, I may or may not agree with his words and of course I can have my opinion about .NET and MONO (mine is very similar to elav's, by the way and I don't want it on my PC) but from there to have to Icaza for little less than a plague goes a distance.
All the best
It is a rally towards Hasecorp, to ally with them could be
That happens for being a public figure and so controversial. I understand your point of view and you are right, but a question arises: If Windows for him is as good as his applications, with what idea did the Gnome Project start? What did you hope to achieve? Particularly if I were Icaza, I would be disappointed in myself for doing something that does not reach (as I think) or on the heels of Windows, and worse still, not doing anything about it.
It is contradictory for a project to start with the Open Source thinking and philosophy and then that thought is changed by something else, like saying: Capitalist. According to Wikipedia itself (what is between parentheses are my comments):
But there not for the thing .. I keep citing:
How does a guy who supports and preaches on Free Software go to find a job precisely at Microsoft?
Where he says that Windows applications are better and blah blah blah ... And to top it off:
Yes man, already .NET.
Nerjamartin, it's not about being blind or Taliban. I admit that many Windows applications are good, but Windows is not good for the user. That Miguel de Icaza sails on both waters for me is already a lot of hypocrisy. Either you are with God or with the Devil.
Well, precisely, maybe he started the Gnome project with the intention of creating something better and in the end he is disappointed (there he, I am delighted lol) I don't know, but he should not be reproached for anything about this. Perhaps his proposal to this (supposed) inferiority is precisely the MONO project and thus in that way to bring the Linux desktop a little closer to Windows I don't know.
I already tell you that I do not agree very much with many of the things that he has done or said (especially on the subject of open documents, there if I do not agree with him at all), but as I say we should not be so radicals, "either you are with us or against us", I don't see it that way, mate, although obviously everyone is free to have their opinion.
As for MONO and .NET (and I will try not to repeat myself hehe) thanks to him and his development we can have this technology in Linux, which always adds up; Whether to use it or not depends on our tastes, preferences and needs, but there it is.
In the company I work for we also develop proprietary software, but I need to work to survive in this capitalist world we are in !! (Although that is another much more transcendental issue lol) Perhaps because I work for a company that uses Microsoft and creates proprietary software, am I also a traitor? It is true that he is a public figure and his words have much more resonance than mine and his opinions can affect people more, but like all of us he has the right to have his own opinion and it must be respected (agree or not it is something else).
And well, I don't get any more annoying with the subject, that at the end of the day each of us will continue to think what we want, but I had to give my opinion! ^ _ ^
All the best
Totally correct thing because blogs among other things are for that.
Those of us who have a blog with some success see it continuously (even if I am only an editor, I am not an admin)
Well if we talk about money, I could very well be the one to tell Steve Ballmer in his ear what to do with Windows hahahaha ..
i removed banshee a few days after installing Ubuntu. I was having trouble with the audio, which was constantly freezing. Besides, I didn't like it, so I had two excuses for installing rhythmbox, which works great, although it only lacks the equalizer to be perfect.
In fact, I once read how to put Equalizer on Rhythmbox, I have to look again 😀 What I don't like in particular is that I can't delete songs with the keys intended for it. 🙁
Equalizer socket:
http://www.thomann.de/es/chandler_limited_emi_tg12345_curve_bender.htm
If it sounds bad with that, it is because you are deaf (do not worry, you are already a carca and they are things that happen)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hahahaha
The decision to replace Banshee with Rhythmbox seems good to me due to the instability of the former.